CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., May 26 (UPI) -- Astronauts aboard the International Space Station have boarded the unmanned Dragon spacecraft and began unloading supplies, NASA TV showed.
BRASILIA, Brazil, May 26 (UPI) -- Brazil's president vetoed portions of a complex and controversial bill on forestry policy that had been backed by the nation's farm lobby.
KIGALI, Rwanda, May 26 (UPI) -- Rwanda is set to vaccinate children for rotavirus, the leading cause of diarrhea-related deaths in developing countries, officials say.
SEATTLE, May 26 (UPI) -- Scientists and lawmakers say debris from the catastrophic earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan last year is reaching U.S. shores sooner than expected.
SILVES, Portugal, May 25 (UPI) -- German researchers say the oldest archaeological evidence of a Jewish cultural presence on the Iberian Peninsula has been found at a Portuguese excavation site.
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands, May 25 (UPI) -- Australia and South Africa will share the site for the world's most powerful radio telescope, powerful enough to detect extraterrestrial life, officials said.
DETROIT, May 25 (UPI) -- Concern over pollution and falling natural gas prices have slowed fracking-based drilling in Michigan, turning an expected boom into a bust, analysts say.
BRISTOL, England, May 25 (UPI) -- Crystals in volcanic rocks hold clues about when a volcano is about to blow, a discovery that could yield predictions about future eruptions, researchers say.
WASHINGTON, May 25 (UPI) -- President Obama has nominated a George Mason University professor to be chairwoman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the White House announced.
CHICAGO, May 25 (UPI) -- Chicago beach managers say a new high-tech system will give them real-time predictions of bacteria counts for Lake Michigan beaches.
EDINBURGH, Scotland, May 25 (UPI) -- A gene identified as critical for the production of healthy sperm could lead to a male contraceptive pill, researchers in Scotland say.
WASHINGTON, May 25 (UPI) -- Organic molecules in martian meteorites, which on Earth are linked with life, were not formed on the Red Planet by biological activity, researchers say.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., May 25 (UPI) -- Private space company SpaceX's Dragon capsule became the first commercial cargo vessel to visit the International Space Station, NASA said Friday.
Negative perceptions are still choking off women's access to careers in science, technology, engineering and math. But if girls are encouraged in the early grades they will benefit, along with the U.S. economy.
TOKYO, May 24 (UPI) -- A new device that can mimic the sound of dolphins could one day help humans talk with the remarkably intelligent creatures, scientists say.
WASHINGTON, May 24 (UPI) -- U.S. and Canadian scientists say they've discovered a sensory organ in rorquals that helps the whale species with its "big gulp" feeding technique.
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